Hi,

On 11 February 2011 21:24, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbarysh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/11/11, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbarysh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just planned to later reuse allocated arm-pic IRQ's (the new one) to
>> be passed to pxa2xx-gpio (to drop usage of cpu-env). I think. I can
>> still allocate
>> arm-pic but use only the last IRQ from it. Will that be suitable for you?
>
> I recollected the reason for this change: there is no clean way to pass 
> CPUState
> to qdev. So It's either DEFINE_PROP_PTR() - like hack, or
> encapsulating thins into
> qemu_irq

That's true, but in that patchset pxa2xx_pic is not turned into a qdev
device (separate from pxa2xx core).  Do you think there's any value in
doing that?  I think it's ok if it doesn't present any
issues/overheads or if there's a clear benefit from doing that.

Cheers

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